Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Ad Eventing (Kafka/Flink)

Netflix; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 499,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plans

Mental Health support

401(k) Retirement Plan

Flexible time off

Paid leave programs

Job summary

Netflix is seeking a Senior Technical Leader for its Ad Eventing team in Los Gatos, California. This role involves owning the technical direction, architecting event pipelines, and scaling the ingestion infrastructure to handle billions of events per day. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in building distributed systems, especially in the ads domain.

Additionally, the position offers an attractive salary range from $499,000 to $900,000, along with comprehensive benefits including health plans and a retirement plan. Join Netflix and help shape the future of ads!

Qualifications

• 10+ years building distributed systems and backend services.
• 3+ years in the ads domain.
• Deep experience with high-throughput event ingestion and stream processing.
• Experience designing event schemas and data contracts.
• Track record of technical leadership across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the Ad Eventing team.
• Architect and evolve the ad event pipeline.
• Scale event ingestion infrastructure.
• Build and operate stream processing pipelines.
• Drive modularization and platform-thinking.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend services

Event ingestion

Stream processing

Technical leadership

Architecture design

Ad measurement concepts

Big-tech scale

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark Streaming

Job description

Netflix is seeking a Senior Technical Leader for its Ad Eventing team in Los Gatos, California. This role involves owning the technical direction, architecting event pipelines, and scaling the ingestion infrastructure to handle billions of events per day. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in building distributed systems, especially in the ads domain.

Additionally, the position offers an attractive salary range from $499,000 to $900,000, along with comprehensive benefits including health plans and a retirement plan. Join Netflix and help shape the future of ads!